“We thought our new 'Hack-A-Cat' game was a unique opportunity to inspire interest in cybersecurity for a younger audience using Roblox,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of KnowBe4.

Roblox ultimately discovered that someone had hacked a single server of the game, allowing them to circumvent the rules and upload code that clearly violated the company's rules.

A popular children's video game has blamed a virtual "gang rape" on a hack of its systems. Amber Petersen's seven-year-old daughter was playing Roblox, when she was attacked by two male characters ...